Bill Text: NY S01792 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1792

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires insurance companies to provide at least ninety days of rehabilitation services to an insured upon a doctor's prescription.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S01792 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01792-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1792

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to insurance coverage for
          substance abuse disorder services

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subsection  (i)  of  section  3216  of  the
     2  insurance  law, as amended by section 5 of subpart A of part BB of chap-
     3  ter 57 of the laws of 2019, is amended by adding a new subparagraph  (H)
     4  to read as follows:
     5    (H)  A  policy  providing  coverage under this paragraph shall include
     6  coverage  for  at  least  ninety  days  at  a  rehabilitation  facility;
     7  provided,  however,  that any stay in a rehabilitation facility required
     8  to be covered pursuant to this paragraph shall require the referral of a
     9  doctor.
    10    § 2. Paragraph 6 of subsection (l) of section 3221  of  the  insurance
    11  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (H) to read as follows:
    12    (H)  A  policy  providing  coverage under this paragraph shall include
    13  coverage  for  at  least  ninety  days  at  a  rehabilitation  facility;
    14  provided,  however,  that any stay in a rehabilitation facility required
    15  to be covered pursuant to this paragraph shall require the referral of a
    16  doctor.
    17    § 3. Subsection (k) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by
    18  adding a new paragraph 8 to read as follows:
    19    (8) A policy providing coverage under this  subsection  shall  include
    20  coverage  for  at  least  ninety  days  at  a  rehabilitation  facility;
    21  provided, however, that any stay in a rehabilitation  facility  required
    22  to  be covered pursuant to this subsection shall require the referral of
    23  a doctor.
    24    § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    25  have  become  a  law  and  shall apply to any policy issued, amended, or
    26  renewed on and after such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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